maebmij.org

This is all hosted on a server in my house. It's only small. It runs GNU/Linux and it's plugged into an ADSL modem.

If you'd like to contact me, my email address is: james at ballantine.com.au.

Here's what you can look at

Me

• My blog - an attempt to document my work and generally Write Stuff Down.
• My bookmarks (del.icio.us)
• My photos (Flickr)
• Music (last.fm)
• Media recommendations - Movies and books that I've enjoyed.

Fun stuff

• Forums! - Chat about stuff.
• Webcam - a camera atop Maebmij's monitor. (be afraid.)
• Photoblog - Random pictures I find or take.
• Latest images from LiveJournal - The latest (last few minutes) images posted in LiveJournal entries. Endless fun!
• Crossword solver - Shows possible words when you only have some of the letters.
• Photo Gallery - People's photos.
• Fortune, the web app - Written as a fortune for the iPhone, but you can use it too.

Technical/formal stuff

• My Honours thesis, Topic Segmentation in Spoken Dialogue, available in pdf and html.
• Setting up Swarm on Debian Unstable - A rough guide to getting the rather elderly Swarm agent-based modelling kit working on a modern Debian system.
• UNIX/computer hints - A collection of notes on how to do things relating to computers, UNIX/linux, etc.
• Examining the Precision Mini Digital Camera - Some experimentation with a little keyring camera I bought, with a view to making it work with gPhoto under Linux.
• Debian, Gnome and Hotplug mini-HOWTO - How to get CDs and USB drives mounting straight onto your gnome desktop like magic (or at least like MacOS).
• iTunes library backup with rsync - How to keep a synchronised backup of your laptop's iTunes library on a server for home listening.
• PHP Date Converter - Little utility to convert human-readable times to UNIX timestamps and vice versa.
• Mysql Cheat Sheet - basic mysql operations I'm always forgetting.
• Installing Debian Unstable on a Thinkpad T41 - what I did to get everything working on my second-hand Thinkpad.